Testimony of Malka Musia Kaplan née Lachterman, born in 1936 in Briceni, Romania, about her experiences as a girl in Briceni, in the Mogilev Podolski and Verejeni ghettos, and in the Obodovka camp

Testimony of Malka Musia Kaplan née Lachterman, born in 1936 in Briceni, Romania, about her experiences as a girl in Briceni, in the Mogilev Podolski and Verejeni ghettos, and in the Obodovka camp Father dispossessed of his shop; German occupation of Briceni ensues in July 1941; led out on a death march; crossing the Dniester River and deportation to the Mogilev Podolski ghetto; people divided up and deportation to the Verejeni ghetto; life in the ghetto; relocated in October 1941; crossing back over the Dniester River to Ukraine; transfer to the Obodovka camp; escape to a farming area by paying a bribe; transfer to her parents' forced farm labor; hunger; lice; typhus; young people join the partisans; the Germans retreat in 1944; taken back to Briceni; father is inducted into the Red Army; fear of deportation to Siberia; father returns and Malka is reunited with him in 1945; escaping with the family to Cernauti; using identity of family members from Bukovina who had perished in Transnistria; moving to Bucharest; signing up for immigration to Eretz Israel; illegal immigration to Eretz Israel aboard the Pan York from Varna in 1947; detention in Cyprus in 1948; life in Cyprus; immigration to Israel in 1949.